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>> thank you so much, reverend sharpton. a big show indeed, i am alicia menendez. welcome to a new weekend of american voices. with our country now in uncharted waters with the federal indictment of donald trump. this hour, the former president is going to make his second public parents it today. stopping in north carolina. we are not going to air his speech live. but we will bring you any news that he makes. we expect his speech to mirror his remarks, just hours ago in georgia. the former president, the only president in u.s. history to be federally charged with a crime, firing up h...

Me the most is that when you have these appeals that trump is making, that will then make their way into the right-wing media. and to the more violent parts of the right-wing media. to say hey, we have to call to arms. here you have to do something. there is to be a spark. you have to get out. there you have to take action. you have to be willing. you have to threaten. you have to use force. you have to escalate. what that basically does is it ratchets up that temperature a little bit more, and it keeps those people quiet. because everybody naturally ducks and covers when there is a risk for v...

Courtroom. what would be the result -- if paul manafort is convicted of any of the counts that he faces in this trial, what would happen if he -- if the president pardoned him after the fact of those convictions? >> as the president may do at any time. so what would happen is that the slate would be wiped entirely clean. i imagine if there was a pardon it would include not only the charges in virginia but the charges in the district of columbia. however, that doesn't mean that bob mueller still couldn't question paul manafort. nothing would preclude mueller right then and there from issuing hi...

Yesterday or tomorrow. so this makes absolutely no sense. >> i want to take you back to the issue of the paul manafort defense and some people staring at it today say it looks like a defense that is geared to a pardon. offering no witnesses, putting on no defense at all in the courtroom. what would be the result -- if paul manafort is convicted of any of the counts that he faces in this trial, what would happen if he -- if the president pardoned him after the fact of those convictions? >> as the president may do at any time. so what would happen is that the slate would be wiped entirely clean....

Jack johnson may 24. and today with dinesh d'souza. tell me about the timeline and how this works. the process of it. because there is a pardon attorney at the justice department. but as i understand, one of the things that dinesh d'souza has told "the daily caller" he appreciates president trump's gut sense of justice and other administrations would have had endless meetings but president trump just does it. how does it actually work? >> i got to say. this is another example of this administration not necessarily following the path that was blazed by prior administrations. president trump wan...